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And MY point is that you cannot continue to treat them as second class citizens if you intend to continue to use them as more than temporary augmentees to the war effort.

For the short term, reserve/guard calls up are super and serve as a great force multiplier. But if you continue to stretch them (for example, the Army is looking to drop the madatory deployment caps for Guardsmen to extend them in Iraq) and at the same time deny them things they need, you cannot expect them to continue to be willing to fight.

What happens when people decide they don't want to join the Guard or Reserve anymore because it's not worth it? Then who augments the active duty force? It can't go on like this forever.